Property and Facilities Sustainability Lead - 6 Months FTC

 Top 3 skills needed for this role:

•  Sustainability project delivery expertise — the ability to lead and support energy, waste, water, fleet, and property related sustainability initiatives that directly influence Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions
•  Strong analytical capability — using data to assess performance, identify improvements, and drive measurable environmental outcomes
•  Excellent communication and collaboration — engaging clearly with stakeholders, presenting effectively, and working as a proactive, supportive team player across Property & Facilities 

What this role is all about: 

Vitality is driven by a belief that healthier people create a healthier planet, and this role plays a key part in that mission by supporting the Head of Property Sustainability & Projects to champion impactful initiatives across our UK properties—leading efforts in energy, waste, water, fleet, and wider property improvements that help reduce our Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions while bringing our sustainability values to life in every space we operate. 

Key Actions

• Supports Property Sustainability function by leading our energy, waste, water, fleet, and property improvement projects that directly impact our Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions across our UK properties.
•  Ensure that any current practices in place are effective and are reviewed / maintained.
•  Research, recommend, present and deliver new initiatives for consideration / sign-off
•  Specifically, support our ongoing ESOS action plan and SECR reporting including liaison with landlords to gather data, build on existing relationships to understand wider building/landlord initiatives.
•  Interface with Finance, Risk, People, and Marketing and other areas of the business to align sustainability goals, secure budget, manage compliance, and influence behaviours.
•  Drive behavioural change, engaging contractors, and embedding sustainability into BAU property operations and culture.
•  Stakeholder management working alongside the Head of Property Sustainability & Property Projects, Chief Sustainability Officer and wider sustainability team.
•  Support / deliver Property & Facilities sustainability projects in our People & Property plan 

What do you need to thrive?

• Two years’ experience developing, maintaining, or managing sustainability initiatives, processes, or programmes involving data collection, analysis, and reporting
•  Analytical approach to using data to enhance sustainability and environmental performance
•  Experience delivering property related sustainability projects
•  Experience working with environmental management systems
•  Excellent verbal and written communication skills
•  Strong presentation skills
•  Confident user of MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
•  Passionate about creating a sustainable future
•  Excellent team player
•  Degree level qualification in Sustainability or a related subject (desirable)
•  Experience delivering property related sustainability projects (desirable)
•  Experience working with sustainability or environmental programmes in financial services (desirable)
•  Associate membership of an appropriate professional body (desirable)
•  Experience of auditing, preferably ISO 14001 (desirable)

• Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
• Be there for you when you need us.
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.